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Hurricane Ian – Florida and Midlands Impacts

Hurricane Ian is expected to make landfall near Fort Myers, Florida, Wednesday afternoon with devastating impacts – wind, flooding rain, flooding from the ocean.  Then the storm will move across Florida and weaken substantially.  We’ll see its impacts on Friday, where we’ll get a wind-swept soaking. The wind will not be strong enough to cause major problems – likely just…

DHEC offers free HIV testing during “PrEP Awareness Week”

This week is the Department of Health and Environmental Control’s third annual “PrEP Awareness Week. “DHEC finds the pre-exposure prophylaxis pill known as PrEP to be highly effective for the prevention of contracting HIV. “If taken as prescribed either as a pill once a day or as an injectable that you receive every 2 months, PrEP can reduce your chances of acquiring HIV by up to 99 percent,” says Robinson.

Police: Texas couple arrested in phony fentanyl seizure

Columbia, S.C. (WOLO)– Columbia police say a traffic stop yielded thousands of counterfiet fentanyl pills. Investigators say on September 17th police conducted a traffic stop of Loria Leal and Eufracio Rodriguez of Texas on Hardin St. During the stop, police say they found 20,000 small round blue pills with an M-30 imprint on them. According to the DEA M-30 stamped…